Barroso: UK veto does not mean split in EU

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today said that the safeguards demanded by British Prime Minister David Cameron at last week's EU summit represented “a risk to the integrity of the internal market” and were impossible for other EU states to accept.

He said that the result of the Brussels talks did not amount to a split in the EU between the 17 eurozone countries and the rest, describing Friday’s accord as “not an agreement at 17-plus, but an agreement at 27-minus”.